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The EU imperative to a free public domain: The case of Italian cultural heritage

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image via Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt Public Domain Mark 1.0 In this context of international and EU legal obligations to protect cultural rights, the EU has set a legal imperative to protect the public domain.

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False Patent Marking as False Advertising: Overcoming Dastar

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit is set to consider the use of terms like “patented,” “proprietary,” and “exclusive” in commercial advertising can be actionable under § 43(a)(1)(B) of the Lanham Act when their use is not entirely accurate. Crocs largely prevailed in those actions.

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Trademark Considerations for Copyrighted Works in the Public Domain

LexBlog IP

Because copyright protection has a set term, copyrights in certain works necessarily expire each year and enter the public domain. Once a work has entered the public domain, it no longer retains copyright protection and cannot stop use of the work by others based on its prior copyright rights.

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The Importance of Trademark Protection When Copyrighted Works Enter the Public Domain

Corsearch

Copyright © Walt Disney Animation Studios A background on copyright protections in the US All works that were published in the US prior to 1923 are now in the public domain, as is any work created by individuals in an official capacity for the federal government. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

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[Guest post] Can the owner of an artistic work convert it into an NFT for its use in the Metaverse?

The IPKat

Thus, the owner of a canvas, in general, cannot make reproductions of the work it contains and distribute these copies or make them available on the Internet, unless such work is in the public domain or is subject to any limitation or exception to the rights of its author [see IPKat here ].

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accusing someone of patent infringement can be actionable disparagement if you know the patent's invalid

43(B)log

28, 2023) Cap Export alleged that Zinus fraudulently obtained a patent after Zinus used the public domain bed-in-a-box sets of a non-party as the basis for its patent application. million consent judgment, which defendants touted in a press release and advertised on Zinus’s website even after the court vacated the stipulated judgment.

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Pirate Sites Using Twitch To Stream TV Shows Face Hollywood Investigation

TorrentFreak

At the other end of the market, cutting costs to maximize slender advertising revenues appears to be more important than a glossy user experience. In addition to channel sources and analytics accounts, advertising affiliates are shared across multiple domains. Court Filing Targets Streaming Sites.